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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Steve, Pete, et al.,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>BHL has an OpenURL resolver that can accept a variety of
input criteria & return matching records with responses in JSON (with or
without callback), XML, HTML, or a direct link. Documentation is
here:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurlhelp.aspx">http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurlhelp.aspx</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>And linked from our broader documentation
here:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Developer+Tools+and+API">http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Developer+Tools+and+API</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR><SPAN
class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Here's an
example, referenced in the documentation, for querying on a
monograph/book:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?genre=book&title=Manual+of+North+American+Diptera&aufirst=Samuel+Wendell&aulast=Williston&publisher=New+Haven+:J.T.+Hathaway,&date=1908&spage=16&format=xml">http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?genre=book&title=Manual+of+North+American+Diptera&aufirst=Samuel+Wendell&aulast=Williston&publisher=New+Haven+:J.T.+Hathaway,&date=1908&spage=16&format=xml</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You
can also query based on common abbreviations, like Sp. Pl.:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?stitle=Sp.%20Pl.&date=1753&format=xml">http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?stitle=Sp.%20Pl.&date=1753&format=xml</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>MOBOT's Tropicos uses the OpenURL resolver to link to protologues, as in
this example:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2735114">http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2735114</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>With
Tropicos we have an authority record for each journal or monographic
title. We match Tropicos' TitleID to BHL's TitleID & use that as a
more direct link to the appropriate reference, but still send collation &
other info to get to the appropriate page, as in this link:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?pid=title:626&volume=5&issue=&spage=244&date=1830">http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?pid=title:626&volume=5&issue=&spage=244&date=1830</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I know
that this is insufficient for zoology & other natural sciences beyond
botany, where we need to be able to support citations like "Pallas 1767", which
may or may not be preparsed into appropriate fields. A known problem, for
sure, and one that we're eager to address, pending funding from
NSF.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=607043519-04012011><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Chris</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Chris Freeland | Director, Center for Biodiversity Informatics |
Missouri Botanical Garden<BR>4344 Shaw Blvd. | St. Louis, Missouri 63110 |
314.577.9548<BR></FONT></P></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org
[mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Peter
DeVries<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:33 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Steve
Baskauf<BR><B>Cc:</B> tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[tdwg-content] GUIDs for publications (usages and names)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi Steve,
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I have been lobbying the BHL for this for some time. Most recently in this
blog post.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.taxonconcept.org/taxonconcept-blog/2010/8/5/why-linked-open-data-makes-sense-for-biodiversity-informatic.html">http://www.taxonconcept.org/taxonconcept-blog/2010/8/5/why-linked-open-data-makes-sense-for-biodiversity-informatic.html</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>What I have realized is that, for many works that are out of copyright,
Google books has already scanned and converted them to PDF. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>You can use these, even extract the relevant PDF pages as long as you keep
the Google watermark. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>This is what I have done for the Cougar.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>For more recent works you may be able to link to the article PDF. As in
this spider example.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.html">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/2mqjL.html</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>We also need a URI for to uniquely identify authors and in the absence of a
better solution, I have been using, and in some cases creating, entries in
Wikipedia which currently has over 5,000 taxonomic author profiles.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>This results in usable RDF via DBpedia. As you can see in the RDF in this
example.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.rdf</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>And in the Knowledge Base</DIV>
<DIV><<A
href="http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2Fv6n7p%23OriginalDescription">http://lsd.taxonconcept.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flod.taxonconcept.org%2Fses%2Fv6n7p%23OriginalDescription</A>
></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>That said, I have also been experimenting with this.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/people/sci_people_1700.rdf">http://lod.taxonconcept.org/people/sci_people_1700.rdf</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>About: Carl Linnaeus <A
href="http://bit.ly/gLgElf">http://bit.ly/gLgElf</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>- Pete</DIV>
<DIV><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Steve Baskauf <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu">steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I
was reviewing some of the previous posts on taxon name usages in an<BR>attempt
to understand them better. I have learned that the Global Names<BR>Index
is an attempt to catalog taxon names and that it is possible to<BR>generate a
URI that points to a name there. Is there a parallel effort<BR>to do the
same thing for literature references? In other words, if I<BR>want to
describe the TNU:<BR>Andropogon virginicus L. sec. Radford et al. (1968)<BR>I
think I could find a URI GUID for the name Andropogon virginicus .<BR>But is
there some place where I could find a unique identifier, or<BR>better a URL,
or best a URI providing RDF/XML for Linnaeus 1753 (the<BR>author and
publication for the name) and for Radford et al.1968 (the<BR>author and
publication that expresses the usage I'm intending).<BR><BR>I suppose that
this question has previously been answered in the in the<BR>many posts on
taxon names, concepts, etc. However, since usually my<BR>brain goes numb
and my eyes glaze over in those threads, I probably<BR>missed
it.<BR><BR>Steve<BR><BR>--<BR>Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior
Lecturer<BR>Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences<BR><BR>postal
mail address:<BR>VU Station B 351634<BR>Nashville, TN 37235-1634,
U.S.A.<BR><BR>delivery address:<BR>2125 Stevenson Center<BR>1161 21st
Ave., S.<BR>Nashville, TN 37235<BR><BR>office: 2128 Stevenson Center<BR>phone:
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